History of North Brookfield, Massachusetts

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Excerpt from History of North Brookfield, Massachusetts: Preceded by an Account of Old Quabaug, Indian and English Occupation, 1647-1676, Brookfield Records, 1686-1783In company with Mr. Jenks, Mr. Adams, Mr. Waite, and Mr. Knight, the historian made a personal exploration of the entire tract embraced in the original township of eight miles square, with a view to determine important matters relating to topography, boundaries, mill-seats, and early land grants. In company with experts, he traversed this and the adjacent territory of so miles in extent, in order to fix upon the points occupied by Indian villages, and trace Indian trails and early English bridle-paths, referred to by Pynchon, Eliot and Gookin. The result was satisfactory, beyond his sanguine hopes, both in confirming the accuracy of those early writers, and in the discovery of numerous aboriginal remains of fort-sites, store towns and clusters of wigwams, some of which are mentioned in the early histories, but have not before been identified, and many of which were previously unknown to either his tory or tradition. All these gathered materials have been wrought into the book now offered to the public.Several missing links in Indian and English history have been dis covered, and put in their proper places. As a rule, events are arranged in chronological order, except where the duplicate character of the narrative required an overlapping in the chapters.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.